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The women were paid off and dismissed and departed in the next day's coach from Montepoole. Fleda stood at the front door to see them go, with a curious sense that there was an empty house at her back, and indeed upon her back. And in spite of all the cheeriness of her tone to her aunt, she was not without some shadowy feeling that soberer times might be coming upon them.
"Have they?" "Yes thinking we were desolate I suppose. There has been no end to aunt Miriam's goodness and pleasantness." "O aunt Miriam, always!" said Fleda. "And Seth." "Catherine Douglass has been up twice to ask if her mother could do anything for us; and Mrs. Douglass sent us once a rabbit and once a quantity of wild pigeons that Earl had shot.
Carleton," said Fleda, after a little time, "did you ever carry out that plan of a rose-garden that you were talking of a long while ago?" "You remember it?" said he, with a pleased look. "Yes, that was one of the first things I set about, after I went home but I did not follow the regular fashion of arrangement that one of your friends is so fond of."
At last there came the day when, for an instant, the bandages could be removed. There were present, Rockwell, Fleda, and Jim Jim, pale but grinning, at the foot of the bed; Fleda, with her back against the door and her hands clenched behind her as though to shut out the invading world. Never had her heart beat as it beat now, but her eyes were steady and bright.
"I am so comforted to see you sitting there, sir," Fleda went on gratefully, "that I am sure I can bear patiently all the rest." His eye turned away and she did not know what to make of his gravity. But a moment after he looked again and spoke with his usual manner. "That business you entrusted to me," he said in a lower tone, "I believe you will have no more trouble with it."
Him also Fleda laughingly promised that, precisely half an hour before the stage time, a cup of coffee and a roll should be smoking on the table, with whatever substantial appendages might be within the bounds of possibility, or the house. "I will pay you for that beforehand with a kiss," said he.
"About a hundred pounds; and you don't want to cut any more than you can put up to-night, Mr. Douglass. We'll try it." "Very good! And you'll send along somethin' for the men. Barby knows," said Earl, bobbing his head again intelligently at Fleda; "there's four on 'em, and it takes somethin' to feed 'em: workin' men 'll put away a good deal o' meat."
Carleton did not follow her in there, guessing that she would rather be alone. But she did not come back, and he was forced to go to fetch her. The chill desolateness of that room had been too much for poor little Fleda.
He returned at last heartily the pressure of her arms, and, unable to give her any other answer, kissed her two or three times such kisses as are charged with the heart's whole message; and, disengaging himself, left the room. For a minute after he was gone, Fleda cried excessively; and Charlton, now alone with her, felt as if he had not a particle of self-respect left to stand upon.
Landscape gardening had long been a great hobby of its owner. "How far does your ground come, Mr. Carleton?" inquired Fleda on one of these rides, when they had travelled a good distance from home. "Further than you can see, Elfie." "Further than I can see! It must be a very large farm." "This is not a farm where we are now," said he; "did you mean that?
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